Franck Innocent
http://www.franck-innocent.com
(1912-1983)
"I have always needed the contact with the material as an incentive to create...
It has become similar to a dictionary from which I borrow only the elements useful to the expression of my feeling.
The more I work, the more I realise that nothing great and lasting is done without love and humility. The heart must come before the intelligence and it is essential to forget what you know when you paint and leave all room for feeling, for emotion."
It has become similar to a dictionary from which I borrow only the elements useful to the expression of my feeling.
The more I work, the more I realise that nothing great and lasting is done without love and humility. The heart must come before the intelligence and it is essential to forget what you know when you paint and leave all room for feeling, for emotion."
Franck Innocent, painter
Without gloss, without disdain, he always respected the object, accepted the subject, ignored fashion, providing if necessary proof that good realists are not photographers, but over-creators capable of providing us with a personal vision of the subject.
He liked to repeat: Long live those who interest the eye and not the brain.
He liked to repeat: Long live those who interest the eye and not the brain.
Hervé Bazin, writer
